Chapter 69.

1. I also saw the souls of women, (2) into both whose eyes a wooden peg was driven, (3) tied by one leg, head downwards. (4) And many frogs, scorpions, snakes, ants, flies, worms and other noxious creatures (khrafstars) went and came inside their jaws, noses, ears, posteriors and sexual parts. 5. And I asked thus: 'Whose souls are these? (6) and what sin was committed by them, whose souls suffer so severe a punishment?' 7. Srosh the pious, and Adar the angel, said (8) thus: 'These are the souls of those wicked women who had a husband in the world, (9) and slept and granted cohabitation [i.e. sex] with another man; (10) and the bed of the husband was kept defiled, and his body injured.'